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- Ideal languages
- Sun's Fortress programming language is intended for general purpose but high performance computing. It's a re-invention and integration from scratch of some interesting ideas including automatic parallelisation and the use of mathematical notation in programming.Here's the summary from the language home site:Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Guy Steele's new programming language
- Guy Steele's new programming languageEver heard of APL?Great for formulas.You can write in ASCIIAccording to the manual you can use ASCII keywords for all the special symbols. So if you were just using a text editor you would write it kind of like a conventional program. But if you used...
- Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, ASCII, APL, Fortress, programming, programming language, Guy Steele
- Discussion threads 2007-01-17
- Guy Steele's new programming language
- How would you like to program like this?You can with Fortress, a new general-purpose statically typed language being developed by Guy Steeles Programming Language Research Group at Sun. Fortress allows the use of Unicode characters in program identifiers, as well as subscripts and superscripts ASCII equivalents are available. This and...
- Tags: Fortress
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Views from the smartest people in Sun's orbit
- A JavaOne panel with some of the smartest people orbiting Sun provided some insight into where Java, porgramming models, Google and man-machine relationships are heading. Guy Steele, a Sun Fellow and a key participant in Java's creation, talked about his latest language project, Fortress, which he described as "doing for...
- Tags: Fortress, Sun Microsystems Inc., Danny Hillis, Guy Steele
- Blog posts 2005-06-30
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- Dwarf Fortress (zip)
- Welcome to Dwarf Fortress. Prepare to guide your stout charges to fortune in a world fraught with many perils. You'll begin by creating your world and watching an animation of the region's history. Once this process is completed, you can prepare a group of dwarves and send them out to...
- Tags: Town, Tarn Adams, Dwarf Fortress, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-08-29
- Mobile Battles: Reign of Swords (exe)
- Engage in epic online battles with a customized army in a fantasy world of magic, steel, and strategy. Build up your army by gaining troops, technology, and magic through engaging campaign missions that feature fortress sieges, ambushes, stealth attacks, and huge open-field clashes. Then battle your friends online. Receive in-game...
- Tags: Mobile, Magic, Army, Punch Entertainment, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Marketing, Management
- Software downloads 2008-08-11
- Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?
- Google has entered the virtual world game with a project called Lively and Second Life and IBM have pulled off a few interoperability experiments. Add it up and we may be seeing a little tipping point for virtual worlds. There may be even a few corporate uses in the future....
- Tags: Google Inc., Virtual World, Avatar, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Why computers fail
- Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- News to know: Nokia Symbian; XP phase-out; Apple badware
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30 Dancho Danchev: Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Advertising & Promotion, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Management, Marketing, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Tresys VM Fortress
- Tresys recently launched VM Fortress, a product based upon work done at the U.S. government's National Security Agency and has been made available as SELinux.VM Fortress is designed to enhance virtual machine security "by confining virtual machines in a patent-pending sandboxing mechanism. This strong, independent control over system resources strictly...
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Open Source, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- It's the last day of school!
- So what do I need to do? A few things, actually. It's time to make a list. Several thin clients have hit hardware snags surprising since they have so little actual hardware to fail; others need to just be reimaged those darned kids. Right...
- Tags: Thin Client, Teacher, Thin Clients, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computers
- The folks who brought you the Great Firewall of China and the Golden Shield are wholly incapable of breaking into the cyber-fortress that is the U.S. House of Representatives. So they say. Accused by U.S. Reps Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) of hacking into their...
- Tags: U.S., China, Computer, Productivity, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Call for military to operate botnet
- Filed under bold proposals: Col. Charles W. Williamson III. staff judge advocate, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, writes in Armed Forces Journal that what the military really needs is an offensive bot-net. (via /. The world has abandoned a fortress mentality...
- Tags: Cyberspace, America, Productivity, Robots, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Security, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)
- (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)Giving old PCs New LifeThis is a Great program and I would like to know how I can donate my old computers to them.RE: (Photos: Giving old PCs new life)I got the page translated hereIt struck me that the page is more concerned with tax...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Professional development, PC, PCs New Life, Columbia, old PC, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Zogis GeForce 9800 GTX
- Nvidia's new GeForce 9800 GTX 3D graphics chip is the spiritual successor to the GeForce 8800 GTX. That latter chip has been the PC gamers' watermark for excellence since it came out at the end of 2006. The difference this time around is while the 8800 GTX debuted with a...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Nvidia GeForce, GeForce 9800, chip, card
- Product reviews 2008-04-09
- Instant Gamer (exe)
- Play instantly free flash games. 3 flash games ready for you to play now. The gamer includes 3 amazing games - Bomer Fortress, Bow Man and Breaking Point. Good 3 flash games that will keep you playing. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Gamer, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-31
- Former Softie Maritz to head cloud computing at EMC
- Former Microsoft Platforms chief Paul Maritz may be best remembered for his alleged threat to "cut off Netscape's air supply." (For the record, Maritz has denied he ever said those exact words.) But in his new job, as head of EMC's newly created Cloud Infrastructure and Services...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Computing, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- U.S. has more sun but Europe has more solar power...for now
- Courtesy EER. A new study of the Concentrated Solar Power industry shows Europe to be far ahead, with major growth in the U.S. a couple years away. Emerging Energy Research found several reasons for the growth on Concenrtated Solar Power...but first a brief explanation....
- Tags: Solar Energy, Europe, Chip, CSP, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Networking, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- MacBook Air SSD - Is it worth the money?
- MacBook Air SSD - Is it worth the money?I thought the original HYPE was "Instant on"?Didn't one of the first ZDNet articles tout that this AirBook came on as soon as you open the lid?Maybe I'm dreaming!RE: MacBook Air SSD - Is it worth the money?The MacBook Air isn't worth...
- Tags: Notebooks, EEEPC, solid state disk, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, MacBook Air SSD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR display
- Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR displayFreaky and Far OutntMost Cool thing I have seen in awhileGeorge this has to be one of the coolest things I have seen in years. It is exciting to think of the possibilities, an the 3d effect was amazing. I can imagine...
- Tags: Games, Webcam, Nintendo Wii, Wii Remote, monitor
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
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